EP115 Bob Cooney's Virtual Reality Deep Dive - Ben Davenport of VRsenal (Part 1)

Ben Davenport is a co-founder and CEO of VRsenal. Ben provides a unique combination of forward-facing innovation grounded in practical business sensibilities that is helping to make LBVR a commercially viable reality today. VRsenal designed and manufactured the first fully automated Virtual Arcade cabinet. This automated cabinet allows the customers to just slide their game card and the system takes care of the rest. This includes providing sanitation and headset fit instructions, walking them through how to play the game and more. It means that no attendants need to be present, the cabinet does all the job. Their first title is the global Beat Saber. In today’s episode, Bob will be talking with Ben about their fully automated Virtual Arcade cabinet, how it works and how they came up with this idea and much more. DISCLAIMER: The audio at times was illegible in the recording, so we edited out some of the original webinar.  Sorry about that. Let’s dive in! WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE: How VRsenal has been doing How VRsenal came up with the unattended VR idea What was the process behind creating unattended VR Ben on working with Punch Bowl Social Ben on simplifying VR so anyone could use it Two biggest problems with VR People's response to VRsenal first products Is it a challenge to put a headset on a newbie VRsenal website: https://www.vrsenal.com/ A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making by Dave Snowden: https://hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making Listen to PART 2 and 3 here: https://anchor.fm/bobcooney-vrdeepdive/episodes/EP116-Bob-Cooneys-Virtual-Reality-Deep-Dive---Ben-Davenport-of-VRsenal-Part-2-ek836i https://anchor.fm/bobcooney-vrdeepdive/episodes/EP117-Bob-Cooneys-Virtual-Reality-Deep-Dive---Ben-Davenport-of-VRsenal-Part-3-ek8390